 | Nine Years of Study Lead to One Amazing Trip to Israel!
Our 8th grade recently returned from its two week trip to Israel. After so many years of studying Israeli history, culture, and language, all of their lessons came to life right before their eyes. And what better time to visit than during the fascinating period just after Pesach – including Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, and Yom HaAtzmaut. The entire country is enmeshed during this time period in recalling the incredible journey of the Jewish people leading up to the creation of the State of Israel. The students kept an inspiring blog as a way of sharing their emotions and their experiences. Truly, this trip has touched them and will be long remembered as an amazing experience. The trip included an archaeological dig, tours of Jerusalem, Tzfat, Tveria, Masada, and so much more.
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| |  | Checkmate at Carmel!
5/15/2012
Walk into one of Carmel Academy's first- or second-grade classrooms and you are likely to hear students talking about pawns, blunders, and checkmates. Once a week they exchange pencils and books for chessboards and chess pieces, as some of Carmel's youngest students learn how to play this centuries-old game.
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 | A Trip to the Moon!
4/30/2012
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to pilot a space shuttle to the moon? Carmel Academy's fifth graders can tell you all about it. On April 17th, the fifth grade class went on an adventure they will never forget when they visited the Discover Museum in Bridgeport, Conn. and "blasted off" into space as the fight crew of the Challenger shuttle.
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Third Grade Puts Journalistic Knowledge to Good Use
4/26/2012
On April 23rd Carmel's second and third graders went to see the Greenwich Symphony. As part of the trip, the third graders became newspaper reporters. Their assignment: Write a short article using the traditional newspaper style of who, what, when, where, why and how. The following is an article written by Sara, one of our aspiring journalists.
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